Lebel Model 1886

The Lebel Model 1886, known as the Fusil Mle 1886 M93 "Lebel" in the French Army, was a bolt-action rifle that entered service with the French military in 1887; its bolt was added in 1893. The gun was the first to use smokeless powder ammunition, and it could fire eight 8mm bullets; it had to be manually reloaded, one bullet at a time. 3,450,000 Model 1886 rifles were produced from 1887 to 1920, and it saw action in the Boxer Rebellion, France's colonial expeditions, the Monegasque Revolution, World War I, the Turkish War of Independence, the Polish-Soviet War, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Algerian War, seeing action into the 1950s.